OpenZaurus

Marcin Juszkiewicz April 28th, 2005

Recently we got many users registered - thats great. They want to contribute to the OZ project and I want to say that documentation would be a good way to help out.

On OESF forum we have dedicated subforum where few threads started to get some docs collected:

• OZ Documentation Project
• Syncing - Effort To Create A Definitive Doc - How to sync with Windows, Linux, MacOS etc.
• Usb Connection Howto - info from that thread should be added to our USB Networking HOWTO which currently describe only ZaurusLinux connection.
• Oz 3.5.3 Bug List - some of them can be fixed by other users, some need more detailed reports

Many users complain that installation guides are not good, that they lack some infos etc - we need someone who will look more into them and atleast reformat them to look similiar (instruction for 5600 is nice formatted).

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Marcin Juszkiewicz April 23rd, 2005

Many users complain about missing libqte2 or libqpe1 packages. Thats because we build images before feed was split.

So edit your /etc/ipkg.conf and add one of those lines (choose the one for your Zaurus):

src/gz machine http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/machine/collie
src/gz machine http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/machine/poodle
src/gz machine http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/machine/c7x0
src/gz machine http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/machine/tosa

And update list of packages by using package manager function.

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Marcin Juszkiewicz April 21st, 2005

There is a bug in systems which run 2.6 kernel. First udev is started and then /dev/ is filled with many not needed entries by “devices” script (which is needed under 2.4). The fix is:

cd /etc/rcS.d
mv S03udev S06udev

After restart /dev/ directory will show only needed entries.

warning - some users reported problems with GPE and SD after it (OPIE works without problems)

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